This blog highlights how applications built around DWF can do more than what can be done just using paper. The blog covers the building (architectural/electrical/construction), manufacturing, and infrastructure (e.g., GIS, telecommunications) industries.

May 25, 2011

DWF File Viewing Comes to the iPad

Judging from the amount of email we receive requesting the ability to view DWF files on your mobile devices, we think you'll be interested in learning about an iPad® app called McDwiff, by third-party developer Austin Silver Software.

Using the Autodesk Freewheel Web service, which requires an Internet connection, McDwiff enables you to open, view, convert, and print 2D and 3D DWF files on your iPad. (Of particular interest to some may be the app's Dropbox integration.)

For more information about the app, visit the McDwiff website. And if you try the app, be sure to leave a comment here to let us know how viewing DWF files on your iPad works for you.

McDwiff (and the Autodesk Freewheel Web service). Just another way Autodesk enables our customers to go beyond the paper!

Comments

That's nice and all, but how on Earth has a 3rd party beat you guys to the punch at viewing your own file format? AutoCAD WS needs to get moving and add this critical feature already (and not just for iOS but for the Android version too).

Daniel - Just to be clear and as mentioned above, McDwiff uses Autodesk Freewheel Web Service. And it's a free service at that. So Autodesk technology actually enables McDwiff. And as you'll see noted on the McDwiff pages, the storage of the viewable DWFs is handled by Autodesk Cloud servers.

And Autodesk did already have its own mobile enabled DWF viewer, built into Buzzsaw. And as always with Autodesk, there's more to come!

I have an Android phone and an Android tablet. As far as I know, there is neither an Android version of Buzzsaw, nor any other DWF viewer for Android. I'm pretty sure that Android devices have a larger market share than iOS, which means that the majority of potential user still don't have this basic capability.